Loop for mail-pouches



(No Model.)

J. TAYLOR-8v W. J. PURDYQ LOOP FOR MAIL PUUGHES.

No. 469,727, Patented Mar, 1. 1892.

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JACOB TAYLOR AND WILLIAM JflPURDY, OF HAGERSTOVN, INDIANA.

LOOP FOR MAlL-PUCHES.

I SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 469,727, dated March 1, 1892.

Application filed July 2l, 1891. Serial No. 400,219. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JACOB TAYLOR and WILLIAM J PURDY, citizens of I-Iagerstown, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana,

- have invented certain new and useful Imsuch as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Our invention relates to an improvement in mail-catcher pouches, and more particularly to devices attached to said pouches whereby to hang them on a crane.

Mail-catcher pouches are usually provided at each end with a closed ring or loop by which the pouch is hung or attached to a mail-crane by the side of a railroad-track. It frequently happens that these closed rings or loops fail to be easily released by the devices which support the pouch on the crane, the ring being either caught by some part of the supporting devices or deflected through the failure of said supporting devices to properly act, thus causing the pouch when taken-from the crane by the catcher on the car to be torn or otherwise injured or the loops or rings entirely torn out. To remedy this defect in the construction of mail-catcher pouches is the object of our present invention, and to construct the devices for attaching a mailcatcher pouch to the mail-crane in such manner that the.

pouch may be readily removed from said crane without injury to it.

WVith this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 1s a view of our improved loop attached to a mail-pouch. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the loo 1; represents one end of a mail catcher pouch, to each end of which an open loop B 1s secured. The loop B is composed of two parts 1 2, the part 1 having an arm 3 projecting therefrom, preferably at right angles, to the free end of which arm the part 2 is hinged or pivotally connected. The parts 1 2 are curved inwardly, as shown in Fig.1,and at their free ends are adapted to bear one against the other, said free ends being preferably widened or flattened, as shown in Fig. 2. On the inner edges of the parts 1 2 of the loop, preferably about midway between their ends, perforated ears 4 are made for the reception of the respective ends of a coiled spring 5, which serves to maintain the free ends of said parts or sections 1 2 normally in contact with each other, but being sufficiently flexible to permit the separation of said free ends of the parts 1 2 when comparatively slight inward pressure is applied to them. The device being thus constructed, the rings or loops B are adapted to receive the arms of a mail-crane, and thus support the pouch onthe crane. WVhen the pouch thus suspended is engaged or caught by the catcher on the mail-car, the parts 1 2 ofthe loop B will be readily forced apart against the retractile action of the spring 5 and the pouch be thus released with the slightest damage thereto.

' With the use of our improved loop it is practically impossible for any injury to come to the pouch in removing it from the crane by the mail-catcher on the car.

The device is very simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and not easy to get out of order.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a loop for a mail-pouch, the combination, with two curved parts or arms, of an arm projecting from one of said parts and pivotally connected to the other part, the free ends of said parts being adapted to normally bear against each other, and a spring connected at its respective ends to said parts to maintain them normally together, substantially as set forth. 7

2. The combination, with a mail-pouch, of an open loop secured thereto, said loop being made in two sections pivotally connected to gether, the free ends of said sections being widened and adapted to bear against each other, and a spring for maintaining the two sections of the loop normally together, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a mail-pouch, of an open loop secured to the end thereof, said loop being composed of two parts or sections pivotally connected together and one of said parts having an arm whereby the device is secured to the pouch, and a spring attached at its ends to the two sections of the loop and maintaining the free ends thereof normally in contact, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. Thecombination, with a mail-pouch, of a loop secured thereto, said loop comprising two parts or arms, one of said parts having an arm projecting at right angles thereto whereby to secure the device to the pouch and ing witnesses.

- JACOB TAYLOR.

WILLIAM J. PURDY.

Witnesses:

C. L. HINDMAN, W. '1. SHIVELY. 

